Gigi Galli and his co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini in a Citroen Xsara WRC
brepared by PH Sport France and run by the Italian Aimont Racing Team,
finished 8th overall Rally Portugal, fifth round of the 2007 FIA World
Rally Championship and third race of their 2007 world rally program,
gaining one point in the championship standings.

Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena in the Citroen C4 won the race, seconds
Marcus Gronholm and Timo Rautiainen with Ford Focus RS WRC and thirds
their team mates Mikko Hirvonen e Jarmo Lehtinen.

The third and last leg of Rally Portugal finished this afternoon with
the spectacular special stage at the Algarve Stadium near Faro. Also
this afternoon the stadium filled with fans and spectators, that
supported with enthusiasm all competitors. Public got thrilled when
after the special stage Gigi lumped on the roof of the car, together
with his co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini, waving a Portuguese flag.

Today's leg comprises 5 special stages, two to be repeated twice and
the Stadium Algarve Super Special (2,03 km), that opened the rally last
Thursday evening.

The race had 18 special stages (357,10 km) all of them on gravel in the
Algarve region south of the country, near the town of Faro, the total
length of the rally has been 1.008,70 km.

"It's been a nice race" said Gigi Galli "Nice special stages and a good
atmosphere, cheering of spectators during the super special was great.
We didn't have problems with the Xsara neither with the tyres. The
felling is good but we didn't reach the times and the results we hoped
for. Now we will try to use the experience acquired here on gravel and
use it at the best in our next race in Argentina and do better".

"It's not gone bad, since we didn't do any tests on gravel during this
month after our last outing in Norwa" said Pierfrancesco Zanchi. Team
Manager Aimont Racing Team "Gigi maintained a steady drive and didn't make
big mistakes. I'm very happy of the team's job and satisfied with the
Pirelli tyres that worked fine. All this give us confidence for our next
race Rally Argentina at the end of the month, that we want to tackle faste.
Our team is made up of three groups Aimont Racing Team, PH Sport and
Pirelli, that now has a good cohesion and there is a good feeling. I also
want to thank again our federation ACI (Automobile Club Italy) CSAI
(Italian Car Sporting Commission) that gave us a precious support".